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Hi. I'm the Lead Motion Designer at Floyd County Productions (creators of Archer) and responsible for all the screen UI throughout the show. I just got a PM asking if I made this, so I figured I'd hop on and contribute a little from behind the scenes.

As many have noticed, it's the OS X version of top. The reason for this is that I literally ran the command on my workstation and copied and pasted the output into After Effects. Then edited it.

Basically, the script required Krieger to search the mainframe for the virus, so I had Krieger run the Top command. Mainly just as an excuse for me insert a list of fake processes based on whatever in-jokes and memes were making the AE team laugh at the time.

Here's the story behind a few of the less obvious ones (because everybody loves it when you explain comedy)…

Also - We have a LAN chatroom in the studio between the After Effects team for work use, but it will often descend into goofing off. To combat this, we made a chatroom just for goofing off. 'Also' was a dumb in-joke we had for a while. Basically someone would say something work related, and then someone else would say 'also…' and then go off on a tangent. Hence why it takes up so much processor time.

WebPregTest - A reference to the episode where Cheryl does an online pregnancy test.

bigBoy - This was a catchphrase of Comedian/Entertainer Daniel Songer. There was a period where we the AE team was obsessed with this guy. In an unhealthy way. http://www.youtube.com/user/danpoetman

Illustratorz - A cheeky nod to our Illustration dept. They provide us the drawings which we make move. They're the step before us in the pipeline, so if their state is 'SLEEPING' then we are in trouble.

BloodyDesks - Kind of a long story from high school but I'll be as concise as I can. 'Bloody' is a moderate cuss word in the UK where I was born and raised. In our High School design & techonology class, our teacher made the desks himself. I don't mean 'made' in the Ikea sense. I mean like designed, welded and woodworked. Suffice to say, he was very protective of them. Every time one of us would stand on them or slam something down, he'd yell out "THE BLOODY DESKS!" followed by a clip 'round the ear. And rightly so.

Also… pay attention to Krieger's auxillary screens throughout the series.

Usually he's doing something on the main screen which is story related, so I design an interface for it. As for the auxiliary screens, i'm told to just 'fill those monitors with something'. That's where I like to geek out the most.

For example. In season 5, ISIS has been shutdown by the FBI and they are forced to relocate their HQ.

As retribution, he's trying to crack mainframe@fbi.gov using a program called BRUTEFORCE. But it's only a 30 day trial.

There's a screen where he runs a series of terminal commands where the result is a reference to 'ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US'.

In some episodes, these aux screens might be too small to read. I think there's one or two instances where they're readible though.

These examples are not plot points in episodes past or present, or anything you see Krieger actively doing. They're just throwaway filler for the screens at his desk. Like I said, I'm just told to make sure the screens are 'on'.

For some extra Geek cred, I also made the kernal panic screen in a later episode.

The script called for Krieger to crash the mainframe. To go the extra mile, I had it produce on of those scary OS X kernal panics from years ago before Apple polished it up with a simple 'You need to restart your computer'.

with that much processing going on, and using all memory, it should be swapping like crazy (im making the assumption that process or at least some process needs to update whats in memory at least a little.) Disk IO wait would throw the load up

Granted, it's theoretically possible i guess, I'm just not used to seeing it (at least in my environment with web servers, where you have a slow down just means longer page loads, which just means more concurrent page loads, which just creates a cycle)